"[Trump’s] de-funding of many of the basic scientific programs that are there to measure, to monitor what’s happening with the climate, is sort of like having a child who is suffering from a very high fever, and then deciding to just stop measuring their temperature, stop taking their temperature. That’s effectively what he is doing. But not just with a single human being—with our entire planet—and it’s a threat to all of us."

—Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael E. Mann, in an interview about his paper in Scientific Reports linking global warming to changes in the Northern Hemisphere jet stream (March 27)

(01-05-2017 10:30 AM)Thoreauvian Wrote: "[Trump’s] de-funding of many of the basic scientific programs that are there to measure, to monitor what’s happening with the climate, is sort of like having a child who is suffering from a very high fever, and then deciding to just stop measuring their temperature, stop taking their temperature. That’s effectively what he is doing. But not just with a single human being—with our entire planet—and it’s a threat to all of us."

—Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael E. Mann, in an interview about his paper in Scientific Reports linking global warming to changes in the Northern Hemisphere jet stream (March 27)

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(06-02-2014 03:47 PM)Momsurroundedbyboys Wrote: And I'm giving myself a conclusion again from all the facepalming.

(01-05-2017 01:08 PM)Popeyes Pappy Wrote: Just in case no one has mentioned it yet the EPA took down their climate change webpage last Friday.

These people get deeper in the sand the more obvious the issue gets. I would say let them bury themselves, but this kind of stupidity may cause too much collateral damage to just shrug off.

I think we'd do very well to support independent studies, collect as much hard literature on the subject as we can, and start talking to more people about the climate out in the open. Of course, this wave of censorship is probably temporary, but that doesn't mean the rest of us can just grab a pint and wait for all this to blow over.

“Look at what they abandoned in their panic...they were afraid; ashamed. They chose to conceal it; to bury the roots of a Great Civilization. They turned their backs on what science had to offer them, and tried to shut the lid of the Pandora's Box they themselves had opened.”

“Look at what they abandoned in their panic...they were afraid; ashamed. They chose to conceal it; to bury the roots of a Great Civilization. They turned their backs on what science had to offer them, and tried to shut the lid of the Pandora's Box they themselves had opened.”

(01-05-2017 01:32 PM)Kaneda Wrote: ^^That screenshot is real, and not just a running joke, right?

The screen shot is real. That's what you got on Friday if you clicked on climate change under environmental topics on the EPA home page. Today climate change isn't even listed under environmental topics.